Summary

DHH shares his enthusiasm for cloud gaming, arguing it has finally reached a tipping point of quality and practicality. He draws parallels to how streaming displaced physical media for music and movies, noting that NVIDIA's GeForce NOW service now delivers impressive performance even for competitive shooters. He also highlights local game streaming via Apollo and Moonlight as a way to repurpose a powerful gaming PC as a household streaming server. The post positions cloud and local game streaming as a practical alternative to expensive dedicated hardware, especially for Linux users.

Key Insight

Cloud and local game streaming have quietly crossed the quality threshold where they can replace dedicated gaming hardware for most players, following the same inevitability as music and movie streaming before them.

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  But do you know what I like more than collecting? Playing! Anywhere. Anything. Anytime.

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  Not 'better' in some abstract philosophical way (ownership vs rent) or even in a concrete technical way (bit rates), but in a practical way.

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  Google Stadia appears to have been just a few years ahead of reality (eerie how often that happens for big G, like with both AI and AR!)

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  You can legitimately play Fortnite in 2880x1800 at 120 fps through a remote 4080, and it looks incredible.

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  Funny how NVIDIA is better at offering the promise of cheap cloud costs than the likes of AWS!

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  No need for a honking big PC on my primary desk. I did not know this was an option!!

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